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Do gun buybacks save lives? : evidence from panel data
Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …
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Child care assistance : are subsidies or tax credits better?
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548120
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Coaching, counseling, case-working : do they help the older unemployed out of benefit receipt and back into the labor market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015
Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed individuals more specifically is mixed. In this paper we present key results from the evaluation of...
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A couples-based approach to the problem of workless families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Hiding the elephant : the tragedy of COVID policy and its economist apologists
Foster, Gigi; Frijters, Paul - 2022
played by many Australian economists as apologists for Australia's most catastrophic peacetime economic policy failure. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198930
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Did the Australian JobKeeper program save jobs by subsidizing temporary layoffs?
Borland, Jeff; Hunt, Jennifer - 2021
We analyze the JobKeeper lump-sum wage subsidy introduced by the Australian government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paying particular attention to the role of temporary layoffs in saving jobs. Although temporary layoffs were widely used, we find that recalls of workers on temporary...
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Heterogeneous returns to active labour market programs for indigenous populations
Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - 2022
This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...
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Caring for carers? : the effect of public subsidies on the wellbeing of unpaid carers
Costa-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, … - 2022
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...
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Measuring the impacts of COVID-19 on job postings in Australia using a reweighting-estimation-transformation approach
Shen, Kailing; Taska, Bledi - 2020
in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
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The impact of paid family leave on the timing of infant vaccinations
Choudhury, Agnitra Roy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2019
Raising a new-born child involves not only financial resources, but also time investment from the parents. A time constraint can affect important decisions made by parents at the early stages of an infant's life. One form of investment that is particularly important is vaccinating an infant. We...
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